Topic: Laze a PoPo Eggbeater and face up to 5 years in the slammer

[Libertas]

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/27922141/man-pleads-guilty-to-aiming-laser-pointer-at-helicopter

I think 5 years to be excessive...it was a laser-pointer, it was not mounted on a rifle, no missile launched...wasn't aimed at a commercial passenger vehicile...

A fine of $1k and probation for 90 days, sure...nobody was hurt...anything more seems excessive, but that is the point the Police State wants to send, isn't it?

[Alphabet Soup]

Agreed. Isn't it interesting that there are hundreds of thousands of unsolved murders in this country but point a laser and you're hunted down and captured before the ten o'clock news is over.

[Libertas]

If I were going to commit a crime and I wanted to distract PoPo from conducting Air Ops and tie up personnel on the ground...I would set up remote-controlled laser pointers and set them to buzzing and then execute my nefarious plans.  Of course this is all just a hypothetical thought exercise...